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Trang 1Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 115 : Preparation date :2 /4/2008 Unit14 : Lesson : Speaking
I Aims :
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express degrees of certainty.
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to give reasons to talk about their plans for future
II Lexical items :
III- Structures :
- I might go to Da Lat next summer vacation
IV- Teaching aids:
V- Techniques :
- skill-based ( listening, speaking)
VI- Procedures :
1
warm-up
(7’)
Games: Flashing the Pictures
-Arrange SS to work in tow groups, A and B
-Flash a picture quickly and ask SS to say what it is ( Appendix 1a)
- With a correct sentence about the picture, the group scores one point The group with more point wins the game
-Keep a running total of points for each group on the board
-Declare the winner -Ask SS ‘why is the baby crying?’
-If the answer is ‘He is hungry/…’ ask SS how they know that
-Ask SS what to use when they just guess, but not sure of something
( Add a clock to the picture to show time in order to elicit more answers with high degree of certainty like ‘He must
be…’.) ( Appendix 1b)
-( expected: May be/Perhaps he’s hungry /He might be thirsty /He must be sleepy / …)
Transition : -So when we are not sure of something, we can only tell the possibility Today we will practice expressing possibility through different degrees of certainty
-Write down on the board : Unit 14 : Speaking – Talking about
Possibility
-Handouts
2 Pre-
Speaking
(7’)
1.Eliciting and Introducing useful language
-Make questions to elicit and then introduce the language used to express possibility
-Draw a continuum to show the degree of certainty the modals express
Degrees of Certainty
( Less Certain) (More Certain)
Chalk and board
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Trang 2Might can’t Could ( sure or almost sure) Adverbs: maybe
perhaps
3
while-Speaking.
(23’)
4
Post-Speaking
(7’)
5
Homework
(1’)
Activity 1: talking about the situation(tack a, p 195)
-Ask SS to work in pairs, read the situations and make a sentence using a suitable modal to express possibility
-Go around to monitor and give help if necessary
-Call on pairs of SS to act out the exchanges for the situations
-Give feedback and comments
Activity 2: talking about the pictures
-Ask SS to work in pairs
-Give each pair a set of pictures(Appendix 2)
-Tell SS to study the pictures and talk about what might
happen in each case using suitable modals to express the degrees of certainty
-Show are picture and modals an exchange to give SS an example
-Go around to monitor unobtrusively
- Call on SS to talk about the pictures and invite the class to express their opinion and to give comments
-Give feedback and comments
Activity 3: talking about plans for next summer vacation
(task b, p.196) -Arrange SS to work in small groups
-Ask SS in their groups to talk about what they plan to do next summer vacation Tell them to use the model the example exchange
-Have SS do the task
-Go around to check and give help if necessary
-Call on some students to report about their groups
-Give feedback and comments
Writing about your plans
-Tell SS to write a few sentences about what they might do next summer vacation
- Ask SS to form small groups of 4 or 5, exchange their writings for correction and share ideas
- give feedback and comments
What’s in common?
-Ask SS to write a short paragraph about their group or class plans for the next vacation, beginning with:
Most of us in the group / class are not sure of what to do in the next summer vacation Some might…
Textbook
Textbook
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